Khoury
"khoury" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Khoury” is uncommon English (frequency #70,807 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,807
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Arabic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Khoury |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Khoury” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Khoury is uncommon English at frequency #70,807 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Arabic.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Khoury in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Khouri. The correct English form is Khoury, spelled K-H-O-U-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Arabic.
Etymology
Variant of Khouri.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Khoury”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is K-H-O-U-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.